Change is good and the New Year brings a new focus for this blog.  As many of you know, I am a Certified Records Manager and I’ve spent the better part of my career promoting effective electronic records management practices.  None of that has changed.  I firmly believe that the role of a Records Manager [...]

SharePoint 2010 has a new feature – can I still call something in SharePoint 2010 new or has that ship sailed? – that I haven’t really mentioned as much as I should.  It’s  the Compliance Details dialog and it’s a great source of information about content in your SharePoint libraries.  The Compliance Details dialog can [...]

This blog has always been focused on providing a fundamental understanding of managing records and information in a SharePoint environment, so I don’t typically like to get too deep into the technical aspects of SharePoint very often.  (And besides, isn’t that why you pay your System Administrators and SharePoint developers the mega-bucks?) However, the new [...]

Early last year when I created my SharePoint 2010 Records Management Wishlist, one of the first items I included on the list was a unique and persistent records identifier.  MOSS 07 used a document’s URL as its identifier, but this proved not only unwieldy (it was typically an enormous string of incomprehensible characters), it was [...]